The Saraki debacle

He who the gods want to destroy, they will first make him mad. Senator Saraki intends to apply the same tactics of espionage he used to ridicule, embarrass & destroy his father politically in Kwara State. That is the same way he has ridiculed & embarrassed the APC by his action in the Senate when he connived with the opposition party, i.e. the PDP, in the election of the principal officers of the Senate by electing a PDP member as the Deputy Senate President to spite his own party. He thereby sold his birthright for a pot of porridge. On reflection, he who rubs his own cloth inside the mud will not care to tear another person’s cloth.

For weeks, the APC as a party could not think right to even know what step to take to manage the situation; they were totally confused. After much consultations, reason prevailed that the party should write the Senate President detailing the decision of the party concerning principal officers with the list of Senators approved by the party to be given positions in order to resolve the logjam in the Senate.

The same hand of fellowship was extended to the Speaker of House of Representatives which he reluctantly accepted and is now in peace with his party.

But Senator Saraki, our man Friday, the cleverest man on the surface of the earth, defied the instruction from his party, that the list sent to him did not reflect federal character. He immediately became an advocate of federal character and thereby jettisoned the list from his party and substituted it with his own personal list. It is said that pride goes before fall. Forgetting that a child who says his mother will not sleep, he too will go without sleep. He failed to realise that he who goes to equity must go with clean hands. He used the federal character to garner cheap public support against his party and made his party a subject of public ridicule.

There is an adge in Yoruba language that says that “omode bu iroko owa weyin lojo koni oluwere ja,” meaning “a child abuses and insulted an iroko tree and he immediately looks backwards, he failed to realise that the iroko tree doesn’t react immediately. Let us wait and see who laughs last.

If what was reported on Sallah Day by Channel T.V at Ilorin is true, it was a big embarrassment to Saraki who claimed to be the political godfather of Kwara State, although this might be a tip of what to expect in future. The Saraki dynasty in Kwara State is about to be ruined politically